Apparatus for transferring grain.



C. H. SWARNER.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING GRAIN. APPLICATION HLED AUG-6.19M).

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APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING GRAIN.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-6,1915.

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WITNESS l/V VE/V TOR 6M, asgammw WW gmwl i g/ ATTORNEY CHARLES H. SWARNER. OF V/AYNE, NEBRASKA.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING GRAIN.

Application filed August 6, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. SWARNER, a citizen of the United States, residing in \Vayne, in Wayne county, in the State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Transferring Grain, and have described the same in the following specification illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to that class of transferring apparatus which is adapted to be used in unloading grain from a farm wagon into a granary, and individually comprises a main frame and a 'iovable elevator leg which is adjustably mounted thereon.

lt the object of the invention to render apparatus of this kind adjustable for dif* ferent uses and for different kinds of loads; by one and the same apparatus to transfer either wheat and other small grains or cars its unloading position in the main frame;

and in general to produce at low cost a superior apparatus of the specified class. To accomplish these objects, I incorporate in my improved grain-transferring device, as parts thereof, a main frame which is movable from place to place and has a longitudinal middle passage-way for the wagon, a swinging elevator leg which has alternative pivotal hearings in the top of that frame, a chute-carrying frame which is adjustably mounted 011 the main frame, and a wagontilting device which has an operative connection with the drivingshaft of the elevator leg.

in said drawings, illustrating the best manner in which I have contemplated applying the principles of my invention, Figure 1 is an end elevation of an apparatus which is constructed in accordance with these principles, together with a grain wagon in discharging position therein. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the same apparatus and wagon, positioned and adjusted for receiving grain from a granary. Fig. 4c is a sec-- tion on the broken line w-w in Fig. 3.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 3d, 191?.

Serial No. 43,976.

and comprising the rigid case Y, the head 8,

. the boot 9. the conveyer 10, and the conveyer buckets 11, pivotally supported on the frame by the alining pivotal arms 12, which are changeably j ournaled in the bearings 13 and 1-1 alternatively, and in the alternative positions shown in Figs. 2 and 3 respectively, as occasion may requir The chute 15, adjacent to the elevator leg, but detached therefroi-n, is a sloping trough mounted on the chute frame 16, and adjustable thereon by the connecting pins 21, inserted selectively in the pinholes 22. The chute frame comprises two spaced legs 17 connected by the crossbars 18, and is changeably mounted 011 the base frame, being either hinged there to by the bolts 19, as shown on Figs. 1 and 2, or held rigidly thereto by the keepers 20, as shown in Fig. 3, according to the requirements of the work in hand.

The wagon-tilting device comprises the horizontal transverse shaft or drum 23 mounted ro-tatably on the top of the main frame, the pulley 2 1 keyed to this shaft, the belt or rope 25 for driving the pulley, the duplicate ropes 26 attached to the shaft, and the terminal books 27 carried by these ropes and adapted to engage and to lift the forward wagon axle 28 as shown.

The power for operating this apparatus is derived from any suitable motor by means of the horizontal rotary shaft 29 driven thereby. It is communicated from the shaft 29 to the shaft 30 by the intermediate cone gears and 33 keyed to those shafts respectively. lit is communicated from the shaft 30, to the alining shaft 31 of the conveyer 10 by the slidingly adjustable square sleeve 3i which fits over the adjacent squared ends of these two shafts, connecting the latter to rotate in unison.

power is communicated from the hub 35 of the gear 33 to the pulley 24 by means of the rope 25 and the step drum 36. This drum porting frame 16 in the different angular positions shown in Fig. 2, the adjustable tie-rods 411 are flexibly attached to the beams 2 and operatively attached to that frame as shown; and for the purpose of retaining the elevator leg in its different positions of adjustment shown in the same figure, the simi lar rods 42 are flexibly attached to the skids 1 and operatively attached to that leg.

In, order to transfer small grain from a Wagon, the latter, while standing on the ground in the passage way i3 between the skids of the main frame, is first tilted to a proper discharging posit-ion, indicated in Fig. 2, by placing the hooks 27 in engagement with the forward axle of the wagon and by then depressing the hand lever so as to wind up a suitable portion of the rope 25 on the drum 36, which is actuated by the gears 32 and 33 during the depression of that lever. Then the elevator leg is set up right in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2 with itssha ft 12 in the bearings l4, and with its boot 9 opening close below the discharging end of the wagon, and is fastened in that position by the appropriate tie-rod 1-2. At the same time the chute frame 16 is adjusted pivotally in the upright position shown in the same figure, and is secured in that position by adjusting the appropriate tie-rod 41 as shown; while the chute is adjusted'on-the chute frame by the pins 21 and 22, and is thereby secured in the desired position shown, varying with the position of the granary or other grain-holder into which the grain is to be discharged.

In order to transfer ears of corn or similar products from the wagon to an adjacent receiver, the wagon is tilted to a discharging position as just described; the elevator leg is placed in the inclined position shown in broken lines in Fig. 2, with its shaft 12 in the bearings 13 and with its boot located as last described, and is secured in its oblique position by the appropriate tie-rod 12 as shown; while the chute-carrying frame is adjusted pivotally in the inclined position similarly shown in the same figure, and is fastened in that position by the proper tierod 41 as shown.

in order to transfer grain from a bin or granary to the wagon, the latter is brought alongside of the apparatus frame, as in Fig. the elevator leg is set upright ii a-reversed position in the frame, with its shaft in the bearings 14: and with its foot in suitable proximity to the granary or bin; in that position the elevator leg is fastened by the tie-rod i2 as shown; the chute-carrying frame is transferred by hand or otherwise to the keepers 20, and held rigidly by them in the position shown; and the chute is adjusted on that frame in the proper in elined position between the wagon and the head of the elevator leg.

When not in use the elevator leg is swung pivotally to a horizontal position, overhead and out of the way.

Such being the construction and operation of my improved apparatus, I claim as my invention,

1. Apparatus of the specified class, comprising a frame adapted to contain a grain wagon, duplicate spaced pairs of bearings mounted on the top of the frame, a reversible elevator leg having a pair of alined pi:- otal and supporting arms extending horizontally from the opposite sides of the leg and journaled in the pairs of bearings alternatively, a conveyer shaft extending through the leg and projecting from its opposite sides, a driven shaft journaled in the frame, and means for connecting the driven shaft coaxially with either end of the conveyor shaft.

2. Apparatus of the specified class, comprising a supporting frame, duplicate spaced pairs of alternative bearings on the frame, a reversible and pivoted elevator leg having a pair of alined pivotal arms extending from the opposite sides of the leg and journaled in said pairs of bearings alternatively, a conveyer shaft extending through the leg and projecting from its opposite sides, a driven shaft journaled in the frame, and means for connecting one end of the driven shaft alternatively with the opposite ends of the conveyer shaft in mutual alinement therewith when the pivotal arms are journaled in either of said pairs of bearings.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. SVVARNER.

Witnesses VTLLARD EDDY, WILLIAM J. How.

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